Question

II. Answer these questions.
1. Who is believed to be the founder of Christianity?
2. Describe the birth and life of the founder of Christianity.
3. Explain the concept of the Holy Trinity.
4. Why was Christ crucified?
5. Explain the significance of Good Friday and Easter Monday.
6. What were the main reasons behind the popularity of Christianity?
7. What is The Bible?
8. Explain the contribution of Roman Emperor Constantine in spreading
Christianity.
9. Describe the Christian monastic order.
10. How was the life in the Christian monasteries?
11. What were the factors that led to the decline of ancient Europe?
12. Who was Saint Peter?
13. Why were the Crusades fought? What impact did they have on Europe?
14. Who was the first Bishop of Rome?
15. How did the monasteries contribute towards spread of Christianity?
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Answer 1

Explanation:

ministry of Jesus

1. Christianity originated with the ministry of Jesus, a Jewish teacher and healer who proclaimed the imminent kingdom of God and was crucified c. AD 30–33 in the 1st century Roman province of Judea.
2. Christianity is the religion that is based on the birth, life, death, resurrection and teaching of Jesus Christ. Christianity began in the 1st century AD after Jesus died and resurrected, as a small group of Jewish people in Judea, but quickly spread throughout the Roman empire
3. The doctrine of the Trinity is the Christian belief that: There is One God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. ... The Trinity is a controversial doctrine; many Christians admit they don't understand it, while many more Christians don't understand it but think they do.
4. It is believed that the crucifixion ofJesus was not an accident of history but an event at the heart of God's plan to reconcile humanity to himself; so, in the Nicene Creed, we confess not just thatJesus was crucified, but that he was crucified 'for us', for our salvation.
5. Good Friday, which marks the day when Jesus Christ was crucified and died in Calvary, falls on the Friday right before Easter. ... Three days later, Christ was resurrected from the dead on Easter Sunday
6. Ehrman attributes the rapid spread of Christianity to five factors: (1) the promise of salvation and eternal life for everyone was an attractive alternative to Roman religions; (2) stories of miracles and healings purportedly showed that the one Christian God was more powerful than the many Roman gods; (3) Christianity ...
7. The Bible is a collection of religious texts or scriptures sacred to Christians, Jews, Samaritans, Rastafari and others. It appears in the form of an anthology, a compilation of texts of a variety of forms that are all linked by the belief that they are collectively revelations of God.
8. Longest chapter: Psalm
9. Adaptations: The Ten Commandments (1956), The Passion of the Christ (2004)
10. Genres: Religious text, Prophecy, Parable, Epistle
11. As the first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity, Constantine played an influential role in the proclamation of the Edict of Milan in 313, which decreed tolerance for Christianity in the empire. He called the First Council of Nicaea in 325, at which the Nicene Creed was professed by Christians.
12. Christian monasticism is the devotional practice of Christians who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship.
13. Medieval monastic life consisted of prayer, reading, and manual labor. Prayer was a monk's first priority. Apart from prayer, monks performed a variety of tasks, such as preparing medicine, lettering, reading, and others. Also, these monks would work in the gardens and on the land.
14. The Roman Empire lost the strengths that had allowed it to exercise effective control over its Western provinces; modern historians posit factors including the effectiveness and numbers of the army, the health and numbers of the Roman population, the strength of the economy, the competence of the Emperors, the internal ...
15. Saint Peter also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, Cephas, or Peter the Apostle, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, and one of the first leaders of the early Church. According to Christian tradition, Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero. 
16. Born: Bethsaida
17. Died: Clementine Chapel
18. Full name: ShimonPlace of burial: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City

Church: Early Christian Great Church

Siblings: Andrew the Apostl

13-Crusades, military expeditions, beginning in the late 11th century, that were organized by western European Christians in response to centuries of Muslim wars of expansion. Their objectives were to check the spread of Islam, to retake control of the Holy Land in the eastern Mediterranean, to conquer pagan areas, and to recapture formerly Christian territories; they were seen by many of their participants as a means of redemption and expiation for sins. Between 1095, when the First Crusade was launched, and 1291, when the Latin Christians were finally expelled from their kingdom in Syria, there were numerous expeditions to the Holy Land, to Spain, and even to the Baltic; the Crusades continued for several centuries after 1291. Crusading declined rapidly during the 16th century with the advent of the Protestant Reformation and the decline of papal authority.

1. Peter
3. Peter was Rome's first bishop or that he was martyred in Rome (according to tradition, he was crucified upside down) during a persecution of the Christians in the mid-60s ce.
5. Monasticism became quite popular in the Middle Ages, with religion being the most important force in Europe. Monks and nuns were to live isolated from the world to become closer to God. Monks provided service to the church by copying manuscripts, creating art, educating people, and working as missionaries.

Answer 2

the founder of christianity